Editor In Chief
Rhonda Schlumpberger is a Midwest farmer’s daughter who liked climbing to the top of grain silos to watch sunsets. Later, she enjoyed the challenges of military service and a career in molecular diagnostic sales and team management.
Intrepidus Ink explores her interest in determined individuals, conflict, and overcoming defeat: “Ut ipsi succedant.”
Rhonda holds an MA from SNHU and an MFA from Seton Hill University. She’s formerly a Fiction Editor at Orion’s Belt Magazine, a Priority Editor at Flash Fiction Magazine, and an intern at Entangled Publishing.
She adores language, the flash reader’s experience, and compression, brevity, and urgency in texts. She seeks excellent structure in short fiction that gives the reader an exceptional experience.
Rhonda’s work appears in Faineant Press, Space and Time Magazine, New Flash Fiction Review, Misery Tourism, Frost Zone Zine, All Worlds Wayfarer, Pulp Modern Flash, and others, and anthologies such as When the World Stopped and Like Sunshine After Rain, edited by Heidi Ruby Miller.
Her best advice concerns coffee and SoCal: both are hot. She’s on X @intrepidusink and Bluesky @intrepidusink.bsky.social.
Senior Editor
Allison Renner is a freelance writer and editor who has previously worked as a graphic designer, MakerSpace teacher, and public and school librarian.
Intrepidus Ink explores the interest of Allison concerning the ability to travel: to other locations, into others’ lives, and beyond this world.
Allison holds a BA in Creative Writing and a Master of Library Science. She’s a former priority editor at Flash Fiction Magazine and worked as the Publicity and Reviews Manager and Social Media Assistant for Split/Lip Press.
She’s an editor who loves connecting with characters and finding a story’s true focus.
Allison is published in Rejection Letters, Atlas and Alice, Misery Tourism, the Daily Drunk, Six Sentences, Discretionary Love, MicroLit Almanac, and others. Her informational book, Library Volunteers: A Practical Guide for Librarians, was published by Rowman & Littlefield. Her chapbook, Won’t Be By Your Side, was published by Alien Buddha Press. She’s on She’s on X @AllisonRWrites and Bluesky @allisonwrites.bsky.social.
Editor
Calie Voorhis is a short story author, poet, and editor. She has work appearing or forthcoming in over thirty venues worldwide, including Anywhere But Earth, The Urban Green Man Anthology, If This Goes On, and Daily Science Fiction.
She’s a lifelong fan of the fantastical, an Odyssey Workshop Alumna, and holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.
As an editor, she appreciates emotional honesty, bravery, and a flair for words.
In her spare time, she enjoys reading and stabbing fabric. You can visit her at the world’s fourth worst writer’s website: www.calievoorhis.com.